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Sitemap Questions

Discussion in 'Google Sitemaps' started by bski, Feb 13, 2007.

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    Can someone please explain what Priority is on a XML sitemap.

    Also what is Change Frequency & Last modification?

    I am seeing all of this here http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/
     
    bski, Feb 13, 2007 IP
  2. MaxPowers

    MaxPowers Peon

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    Complete explanations are given at AutoMapIt in the forums, but in short...

    Priority is how you compare one of your pages to another of your pages.

    Change Frequency is how often your page gets updated or changed.

    Last Modification is a timestamp of the last time your page was actually updated.

    All of those are optional, but the priority or (correct) lastmod would be the most important.
     
    MaxPowers, Feb 15, 2007 IP
  3. websitetools

    websitetools Well-Known Member

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    Here is an article I once wrote about sitemap priority values

    Looking at the date... Oh my god time flies fast :)
     
    websitetools, Feb 21, 2007 IP
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    Well aren't these two pretty obvious??


    tayiper
     
    tayiper, Mar 2, 2007 IP
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    chsajid11 Banned

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    search engines want to know, how fast your site contents changes. so xml sitemap help those bots to let them know about it.
     
    chsajid11, Mar 3, 2007 IP
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    The priority, although I'm convinced is a useless item, supposedly says how important that page is compared to other pages on your site. Considering that the SE's give no relevance to it whatsoever, it's useless.
     
    WebGeek182, Mar 4, 2007 IP